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31. Stowe MS 380

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Stowe MS 380
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BRACTON De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ. No title; begins with a table of chapters. Instead of the usual division into five books, there are here seventy divisions, the number of chapters in each varying between two and 109. At the heads of the pages is a further division into sixteen books...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

32. Stowe MS 401

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Stowe MS 401
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SUMMARY of proceedings in the divorce-suit brought against Robert Devereux, 3rd -Earl of Essex, by his wife, Lady Frances Howard, 1613[4] ; and in the trials of the murderers of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1615. Printed as A True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, etc., 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614-1615
Extent:
1 item

33. Stowe MS 391

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Stowe MS 391
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" PLACITA in curia Regis, tempore Regis Ricardi Primi," from the original rolls in the Chapter House, Westminster, now in the Public Record Office. They relate (with the exception of ff. 61-74, which bear the date of Rich. I., and refer to various counties) exclusively to co. Wilts, and will be ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

34. Stowe MS 421

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Stowe MS 421
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" LAW MISCELLANIES " : copy of a volume of legal notes made by Sir Christopher Yelverton [Speaker of the House of Commons, 1597, Justice of the King's Bench, 1602-1612]. In the hand of John Anstis, Garter King of Arms; copied by leave of Talbot Yelverton, Earl of Sussex [1717-1731], in whose pos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1717-1731]
Extent:
1 item

35. Stowe MS 378

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Stowe MS 378
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DECRETUM GRATIANI; with marginal notes and references. Complete, except that the " paleae " are mostly wanting. At the end (f. 222) is a list of popes, with the names of the emperors contemporaneous with them, ending with the 16th year of Alexander III. [1174] and the antipope John [Calixtus III...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

36. Stowe MS 394

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Stowe MS 394
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PLEAS in Parliament and before Justices itinerant, 18 Edw. I. [1290]-35 Edw. I. [1307]; together with (ff. 302-358 b) pleas in the parliament of 14 Edw. II. [1320]. Latin. Printed, with omissions, by William Ryley, Placita Parliamentaria, 1661. A transcript from the original rolls, then " in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

37. Stowe MS 418

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Stowe MS 418
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" THE METHODICALL PROSEC[UTION] Of causes in the high Court of Star Chamber from the originall subp[oena] vnto the hearing and end of the cause. Allso the order and proceedings of the Court vpon the sitting dayes in the hearing of causes and motions." With dedicatory letter, dated 20 Sept. 1622,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1622
Extent:
1 item

38. Stowe MS 416

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Stowe MS 416
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" PAPERS relating to the office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain " during the Chancellorship of Thomas Parker, Baron Parker, Earl of Macclesfield ; 1718-1725. Included are:- 1. Minute of the Privy Council recording the administration of the oath to Lord Chancellor Parker; 14 May, 1718....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1718-1725
Extent:
1 item

39. Stowe MS 389

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Stowe MS 389
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Statutes from the first year of the reign of King Henry IV to the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry VI, with later musical additions
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Statutes from 1 Hen. IV. to 12 Hen. VI., in chronological order. Under 2 Hen VI. is inserted a writ from the king to the sheriffs on the subject of purveyance. The collection concludes with the statute on purveyance, weights and measures, etc., reenacting several previous statutes, which is omit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (125 folios)

40. Stowe MS 399

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Stowe MS 399
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1. " THE ARRAIGNEMENT of Robert, Earle of Essex, and Henry, Earle of Southampton, at Westminster, the 19 of February, 1601." This report differs to some extent from that contained in the State Trials (vol. i. p. 1333), being somewhat fuller in detail. f 1. 2. Report of the discussion on Essex'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item